Cooking

How are we half way through February already? This week is half term and as the boys are not going to school it does affect our food budget. They do tend to snack more throughout the morning and afternoon and we have a biggish dinner early evening. Last week’s meal plan was a raving success…

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What a week! It seems to have literally flew past didn’t it? This is the last week of school for the boys before half term and because of our work patterns they are only in school 2 days this week. It does mean they will be spending more time at home, which means they will…

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Can you believe that today is the first day of February. January seems to have just dragged however we are that little bit closer to spring and for some sun. Last week’s meals were a great success although we did mix it up a little and we decided not to have roast dinner. I still…

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The boys really enjoyed last week’s meal plan and to be honest, so did I. There wasn’t much left after each meal which is something that makes me happy. There is nothing worse than food waste. I took our grazing platter up a notch, if you follow me on Instagram you would have already seen…

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This week’s shopping list is my most expensive so far this week. However as I have a lot of the store cupboards I wouldn’t be spending quite this much. However alot more of our meals this week takes some preparing. Such as our fish cakes, Mark makes them using cooked white fish, mashed potato, egg…

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This week I want to try something new. As you know my children are all somewhat fussy and if you are a long time reader of my meal plans you’ll also know how much I struggle to get some variety into our meals. So from this week I want to try something new. Something a…

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